In Forum reports:
The North Dakota House passed a bill Tuesday that sets the state up to challenge the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion.
Rep. Dan Ruby, R-Minot, the sponsor of House Bill 1527, said the bill defines human life as beginning at fertilization of a woman’s egg by a man’s sperm, because the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 instructs states “that in order to challenge, we have to stipulate when life begins.”
. . . it also makes legislators official interveners if the state attorney general must defend the law, which she said is questionable in constitutional law.
The bill now heads to the Senate.
